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Climate change grief: some resources (LentBlog23)
A week and a half ago I wrote here about my ‘climate change conversion’, not from unbelief to belief, but…
Meditation on a line by Joli Jensen (LentBlog21)
It isn’t often that you read something that you know as soon as you read it has the capacity to…
Meditation on a line by Sherwood Anderson (LentBlog20)
‘I’m trying again. A man has to begin over and over – to try to think and feel only in…
Doing a Likely Lads (LentBlog19)
Lying awake last night wondering what had become of Theresa May’s deal in Parliament it suddenly occurred to me that…
A week off (LentBlog18)
I’m hoping that by the end of the week we may be nearer to a political solution to the national…
#PutItToThePeopleMarch (LentBlogs17)
I saw: old hippies, new hippies, punks, preppies, grandmothers, babes in arms, parents, wrinklies, men in tweeds, trombonists, anarchists, Star…
Meditation on a line by Rebecca Goss (LentBlog15)
Towards the end of her Greenbelt Festival poetry reading Q and A with Sasha Dugdale in 2017, Rebecca Goss said…
The dividend (LentBlog14)
Having left FB a week or two ago and quickly decided before I could persuade myself to do otherwise to…
My climate change conversion (LentBlog13)
There I was, a normal Saturday, coffee and The Guardian, propped up in bed with the old iPad, flicking through…
Why I can’t vote Labour at the next election (LentBlog12)
I never wanted to have to say this. I never imagined I would. But I have finally lost the plot…
Staying in touch with my failure rate (LentBlog11)
I always think of myself as working at a rock face. Ninety days out of ninety five, it’s just a…
The new notebook (LentBlog9)
After Charles Wright Strives for perfection-Thursday Is begun day after votings Old envelope from the hospital) Will…
The blogs I don’t read (LentBlog8)
When I began blogging almost ten years ago, I felt as though I had been let into the shiny, sugar-scented…
Portrait (LentBlog7)
I am half way down the path with a recycling bin, a podcast playing on my phone in my pocket,…
A couple (LentBlog6)
We have all seen them. (Except maybe we do not see them. Maybe what they are doing is so normal…
Old (LentBlog5)
That isn’t me in the photo, though it could be. A bald man in vaguely sportif clothing trying to take an…
Interiority (LentBlog3)
‘You good?’ says the book. ‘Yup,’ I say. ‘Good, thanks. All good.’ ‘You’re good. So you’re good,’ the book says.…
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